In the blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed, and winter has already begun in various places in Shukou in the Song Dynasty.
In the past two years, the life of the people in Shu has been more difficult than before. Especially last year, there was a mutiny in Xingyuan Prefecture and other places. Thousands of soldiers took the name of the Red Scarf Team and plundered various places in Shukou. They killed a large number of officials to vent their anger.
At the same time, it will inevitably bring heavy losses to local communities and cause untold damage.
After the chaos in the Song Dynasty, the people of Lizhou Road in the Song Dynasty had to bear the increasingly busy work pressured by officials, and at the same time they were busy replanting tea seedlings or grain, and repairing their damaged homes. Fortunately, Lizhou Road North
The neighboring countries we faced had no hostility for a long time, probably due to the change of the old and new dynasties. They were always wary of the Jin Kingdom. After all, it was different.
As long as life goes on like this, even if the taxes are high and the officials are cruel, it is not unbearable. It is a soft knife to cut people. When the knife was first used, the people were bleeding and in pain, but after a long time, they got used to it and they could always endure it. Therefore
In recent months, Lizhou East Road has gradually regained some popularity.
There is a pass between Yangzhou Xixiang County and Jinzhou Shiquan County on Lizhou East Road, called Raofeng Pass. This is a very important pass to the east of Xingyuan Mansion, and is also an important access point at the southern end of Ziwu Road.
and the only way to go eastward along the Han River.
During the Shaoxing period of the Song Dynasty, when the Kingdom of Jin was at its peak, General Wanyan Sali of the Kingdom of Jin visited Shu. After the monk was frustrated by Wu Jie, he turned to Shang Yu and broke into Jinzhou. Liu Ziyu, who was in charge of Xingyuan Mansion, urgently summoned
Wu Jie returned for reinforcements, and Wu Jie led his troops to gallop three hundred miles day and night from Hechi to Raofeng Pass, where they fought fiercely with the Jin army. Although they were defeated and retreated slightly, they left behind the story that Huanggan left behind the enemy.
After that battle, the military confrontation between the Song and Jin Dynasties at Shukou gradually subsided, and Raofengguan gradually transformed from a military fortress into a transit place for money and grain transportation and merchant exchanges along the Han River.
Decades passed by, and the Raofeng Pass itself, which was located at a dangerous location in Raofeng Ridge and overlooked the canyon below, was actually abandoned. Guancheng also continued to move south, getting closer and closer to the Han River, and finally settled on
South of Shagou adjacent to Niuyang River, fifteen miles away from the pass.
During the Shaoxing period, the Song Dynasty established the three capitals of Xingzhou, Xingyuan, and Jinzhou. The Jinzhou garrison had a strength of 11,000 people. This garrison situation was completely different by the 12th year of Jiading. There should have been 20,000 troops.
The actual available troops of Yu Xingyuan's capital commander were only more than 4,000. The garrison shortage ratio in Jinzhou was also roughly the same, and many of them were involved in the mutiny, and they took their families and became rebels.
Even if the remaining soldiers were available, how could officials dare to use them?
After several months of picking and choosing, only two hundred soldiers were retained to guard the Guancheng of Raofengguan, even though it was used for transportation purposes.
The garrison was small, but the city was well built.
The city wall is more than two feet high and has a female wall. There are rolling logs and stones on the city wall, and there is even a large pot for boiling gold juice. There is a trench outside the city wall, and the trench is filled with bamboo sticks. I have to admit that the people of Song Dynasty
They were indeed good at defending the city. They were very careful when building the trenches. The gap left for daily access did not face the gate of Guancheng, but walked in an arc close to the city wall and the mountain wall.
If an enemy wants to attack the city gate through the gap, they have to walk fifty steps along the city wall against the arrows and wood and stones fired by the defenders. When they get to the bottom of the city gate, they will find that the flat ground between the city gate and the trench is very narrow.
, cannot tolerate any equipment that rushes into cars or doors.
Whatever the attacker wants to do, it has to cost lives. As long as the defender doesn't sleep to death, hundreds of people will die if the attacker comes.
Of course, the defenders will not slack off to that extent. After all, many big shots are watching such a pass. Starting last year, with the mutiny led by Zhang Fu and Mo Jian of Xingyuan Mansion intensifying, the defenders had to keep their eyes open even when sleeping.
Only eyes.
But later, Zhang Fu and Mo Jian's troops continued to go south to attack Langzhou, Guozhou, Suining Prefecture, Puzhou and other places, and their troops were once close to Chengdu. They did not pay attention to the east of Xingyuan Prefecture. For several months
Not to mention sending troops to attack, there was not even harassment or testing, so the defenders gradually became slack.
This morning, there was a yellow-faced and black-bearded flag guard on Guancheng who had just eaten something. He was rubbing his belly and lazily looking at the empty road in front of him. The road wound out of the deep mountains and headed southwest.
The direction extends in a zigzag direction and disappears behind the undulating slopes.
The road is a very wide road, built by the famous minister Zhang Jun during the Jianyan period when he was governing Sichuan and Shaanxi. In previous years, even in winter, the road was full of business travelers. After all, to the west of Lizhou Road, the chiefs and nobles of the Tubo and Xixia people,
Many people would go to the border of the Song Dynasty to spend the winter and exchange supplies. And the people of the Song Dynasty spent the winter and celebrated the New Year, and they always wanted to buy something for their homes.
But in the past three years, there have been fewer and fewer business travelers on this road. It is said that this is because the tea and horse trade in Junzhou in the west is sluggish, and the imperial court has sent people to severely suppress the local wealthy merchants.
Not to mention after the mutiny broke out this year. If you occasionally see a group of caravans, there must be dozens or hundreds of people forming a large group, holding weapons to prepare for thieves to plunder. In fact, why be so nervous? They are not making any money from their transactions, and thieves may not see it.
superior.
This flag leader understands this best. It is all because he himself was a bandit who was active in eastern Sichuan.
The bannerman's name is Han Yanmo. Because of his outstanding foot strength, he can climb mountains and ridges as if on flat ground. There is a Jianghu bandit named Han Feishan. He also has sworn brothers. Each has his own ability. He originally called himself the Bashan Sankou, specializing in plundering between Jiang and Han.
The activities of merchants.
Because it had rarely opened since last year, the three of them went to their base in Jinzhou, intending to relinquish their lives and become good friends. However, they encountered a semi-forced recruitment of new soldiers by the local people, and the three brothers became the defenders of Raofeng Pass.
Among these newly recruited soldiers, those who were from farmers were incapable of fighting, while those who were from thieves and bandits had an indelible laziness and gangster spirit. Han Yanmo squinted his eyes and saw that all the patrollers had their heads down, and immediately gave him a beating
Yawning, I was going to find a sheltered corner at home to take a nap.
I just wrapped my cloak tightly, but I heard the thump of footsteps. A local recruit from Jinzhou ran over and shouted: "Someone is coming! Look at the flag leader, someone is coming. Could it be the red scarf from Xingyuan Mansion?"
Is the team here?"
Before Han Yanmo could get up, his sworn brothers Luo Yingkui and Wang Lichan jumped up first, holding bows and knives on guard.
Han Yanmo stood behind the two of them and squinted in the direction of the recruit's finger. He saw smoke and dust rising vaguely at the end of the road. After a while, a group of people wandered out and approached Guancheng.
There were not many people, twenty or thirty, driving seven or eight carts, and the mules and horses pulling the carts were quite heavy.
Han Yanmo looked at the recruits with disdain and spat: "You idiot, how could they be rebels? Do the rebels bring so many vehicles? Are they delivering goods or robbing things?"
After cursing for a while, he said to his two brothers: "This caravan carries a lot of goods. If you stop it, you will definitely make a fortune. Let's open the door quickly and keep an eye on it, lest the officers above take all the benefits.
Leave some grain scraps for us."
"Brother, something is wrong!"
Luo Yingkui suddenly said: "Look at the way those people walk, they all have bandages on their legs... This must be the result of long-term riding on horseback, which is not what Sichuan merchants can have!"
Han Yanmo looked at it carefully, and saw that the twenty or thirty people were not only bow-legged, but also stout and broad-shouldered. Although only the first few who looked like guards had knives in their hands, the others were by no means hardworking civil servants, but killers.
He is a fierce character who has surpassed many people! Han Yanmo can feel it even from a distance!
Seeing this, he couldn't help but become suspicious, and quickly gave orders in a low voice. The soldiers who were in charge of this section of the city wall with him immediately became on guard, and all of them were ready with their bows and arrows drawn.
Unexpectedly, at this time, Na Dutou suddenly came over and yelled: "What are you doing? Why are you so crazy? Put down your bows and arrows, here are the officials from Tuolei! Those are in Xingyuan Mansion and Chengdu
There are a lot of acquaintances and friends in the city, including many high-ranking Tuo Lei officials!"
After roaring twice and spitting on Han Yanmo's face, he ignored the rest of the crowd and walked off the city wall with a cheerful face, then went out to greet him.
Han Yanmo muttered subconsciously: "I didn't even know there was someone named Tuo in this world!"
Luo Yingkui was from Mianzhou and was more familiar with the situation in Shu. He immediately replied: "Brother, I have heard of the Tuolei official whom Dutou mentioned... he should be a Mongolian who has been traveling to Shu in the past two years.
The leader is Tuo Lei. It is said that this person has friendships with many great men. No wonder we all want to flatter him."
"Mongols? Where did they come from? Are they so amazing?" Han Yanmo asked.
The chapter names are a bit confusing, I'll change them tomorrow.
The old man at home installed a new elevator last year, and then the old men and women in the building were fighting over the proportion of the elevator's electricity expenses. They struggled for a whole year with no results. Today I just can't help it.
I spent 20 yuan to download several papers on elevator energy consumption analysis, studied it for three hours, then laid out facts and reasoning in the building group, posted tables and data, and exported a large number of them.
Wait until tomorrow to see if this output has any effect, and if it can make the old men and women sober up and sign an agreement as soon as possible.